Please Pray for Registration

Dear Readers,
I would like to ask you to pray for IOI's work in Ethiopia. For almost 12 years we have supported indigenous ministries and ministers. Until now we have worked through existing churches and organizations like Operation Rescue Ethiopia (the childcare project in Mekele).

The need to register IOI as an NGO (Non Governmental Organization) became apparent a couple of years ago. As an NGO we could own property and import materials to advance the ministry. Registering as an NGO would also provide some legal protection for those involved in the ministry. Also, if you know much about IOI you know we plan to build a model village in Ethiopia where we train students in theology, agriculture, health care and vocation.

After almost two years in process we have been told by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that our application will be rejected. This news has been disheartening, especially since we have funds, materials and volunteers committed to make this vision become a reality.

We have been told that we can be "religious" or "charitable", but not both. Ironically the word "charity" is a Christian idea. In Websters Dictionary the definition is "(Christian theology) ...love for one's fellow man". Many secular organizations have been involved in welfare projects and are even called "Charities" - in many minds charity has been divorced from Christianity. How bizarre that a government institution would try to separate Christianity from charity.

We know that when God closes one door He often opens another. We are confident that the training program will progress, most likely through the churches of Ethiopia rather than a campus. We are also exploring ways to invest in the people of Ethiopia in an effort to help the poorest of the poor work their way out of poverty.

Please pray that God will guide us through this process and that the end of the matter will be far better than the beginning has been.

Yours in Christ,
Patrick

Missionaries Support At-Risk Child

I received word today that the missionaries supported through Indigenous Outreach (who receive and average of $60 each per month) not only support 5 indigenous ministers from within Ethiopia, they have collected amongst themselves to support an at-risk child through the TLC (True Light Childcare) project.

Asenaku Wube (center wearing blue sweater) is pictured with some of her indigenous supporters.

"What amazes me," said Patrick Beard, IOI Executive Director, "is that the missionaries did this completely on their own. It was their idea. It both humbles ad encourages me greatly."

The TLC project serves over 100 at-risk children (children who come from poverty stricken families, some of which are orphans). Supporting a child for $20 per month provides education, clothing and food assistance as well as participation in a Bible club program. Sponsors are asked to add an additional $5 to their monthly gift to help defray administrative costs of the program. "We believe in (the TLC) program so much that we will send the $20 per month at our cost so that 100% of the gift benefits the children and families served," said Patrick.

Go to www.ioiusa.org to find out how you can join with fellow believers from Ethiopian and America to support children in Ethiopia.

Tangible Ministry in Ethiopia

By Stephen Kennedy
Mission Coordinator
The emergency assistance fund was established last year as we heard of the tangible needs of some of the ministers in Ethiopia. In January we left $390 USD with Negash to use for meeting emergency needs for the missionaries. On behalf of all the ministers who received help in tangible ways, he wrote last month, thanking from his heart all who gave. Below is what all was able to be done for less than four hundred dollars.
Aid for Merkebu, Seyefu, Gelana and their wives on the occasion of them all having children born into their families. Yerga and his family received some help toward a new house. Kaleb received an MRI to see if surgery would be able to help reduce the pain in his hips as he walks. Awash Buni Church was given assistance toward buying a house church near the main road. Chaka’s wife was helped with some medical expenses. Mellese was able to go to the eye doctor and get glasses.
After all of this there is still more for Kaleb to return to the doctor and to help Matteows who will see a doctor next month.
I was amazed and very encouraged by how much was done with so little. It is a blessing to serve these dear ones in Christ not only with a little monthly support but to also come alongside of them in times of need. We continue to have the emergency assistance fund available for the brothers and sisters in Christ that He has yoked us with in love.

Bread Ovens to be Provided

It is our desire to not only send enough support to help families eke out an existence. We want to minister holistically, to improve the whole economy of life for our brothers and sisters.
With this in mind, Arlene Norton has begun raising funds to purchase ovens that will allow mothers of TLCP supported children to bake local bread and sell it. This will enable these families to add to their very small income with a business that is not based on ongoing support.
Arlene has already raised $1000.00 of the $3000.00 goal which will be enough to purchase every mother in the program an oven who desires one.
Pray that Arlene can meet this goal and that God will use these ovens to feed His own.

The Video is Finished!!!

Sanctuary Village from Patrick Beard on Vimeo.

Big thanks to Julian Williamson from Bluesland Films for all his hard work on this project!

Sanctuary Village Logo

The Logo is Finished! Next comes the video -- keep watching the website and blog for it.
Now all we need is $1.5 million, a good piece of land and seven years... LORD willing.

Sanctuary Village is our vision to raise up 300 Ethiopian ministers over seven years in an agrarian community where theology, agriculture, basic health care and vocational trades are taught and practiced through a lifestyle of prayer, mercy ministry, study and labor.

The campus of Sanctuary Village will include homes for families, elderly, disabled and singles. Plans include a minor medical clinic, pharmacy, store, primary school, meeting hall, sports field and cafe that will be located in the public areas. Micro-farming, animal husbandry, well drilling and home building will be taught and practiced on the campus in the vocational/farming area. Both short and long term residents would live in the Village.

Theological training programs would be offered in residential and commuting programs. Classes will be taught in ten terms of two intensive weeks over three years. Residential students will have schedules that vary with the growing seasons, but will include daily prayers, vocation and mercy ministry.

During their time on campus residential students will be pared into teams of five in preparation for replication of the ministry on a small scale within existing villages. Ideally each team will have a preacher, educator, administrator, medical tech and an agriculture/vocation tech. These teams would serve as a group of elders for new churches.

Elevate Ethiopia

A special blog has been established for our child sponsorship program that is being coordinated by Arlene Norton. She has posted videos of her recent visit with some of the families we help to support.

http://www.elevateethiopia.blogspot.com/

Tangible Ministry to Families

by Stephen Kennedy
Missions Coordinator
Eden Maseresha has been supported through the True Light Childcare Project (formerly Repi Childcare) for the past few months. Eden, like three of the other supported children, lived in a home that was recently bulldozed down by the government. The reason for this tragic occurrence was the severe poverty that these families live in. Buying land in Ethiopia is very difficult and takes a lot of time and money. If they do not have the money to rent or to buy land from the government, many will build what they call “moon houses”. These houses are built overnight in areas of land which are condemned by the government (such as by the garbage dump or by a river bed). Eden’s family lived in one of these moon houses. Since they were there illegally, their home was finally pushed over.
Because of the lack of money, many families who go through losing their house in this way often go and build another moon house out of trash and wait for it to be demolished as well. Supporters in the States heard of these four families losing their homes and donated $75 USD for each family so that they can establish a more permanent home and not live is this cycle of fear. This money was sent to Ethiopia and Eden’s family, as well as the other three, will be getting aid from the church in a tangible demonstration of the love of Christ. This is what we do: demonstrate in deed and truth the love that our Lord has shown us.

Prayer for Ten-Time Multiplication

We have entered our tenth year as a ministry. Stephen Kennedy (IOI’s Mission Coordinator) and I have begun to pray a radical prayer and ask God to multiply the ministry of IOI ten times.
We really believe in what we are doing.
Asking God to increase the ministry by ten will not cost ten times as much.
Our budget last year was $161,260.31 which supported 25 children, 36 missionaries, mission trips and the administration Stateside. For just over three times as much financial support we could be doing ten times more ministry! This is possible because our costs Stateside would not increase very much.
We could be supporting 320 Ethiopian missionaries, 250 children, 30 Brazilian missionaries, build a discipleship training center in Ethiopia and administrate the mission for just over $500,000.00 per year. That is over 600 families for less than $830 per family per year!
Sanctuary Village Discipleship Training Center
The Church is growing quickly in Ethiopia and we see an urgent need for good training in the countryside churches. Many of the new churches that have been established in the past three years have leadership with little or no training in theology or Bible. I do not want my zeal to overshadow wisdom. There is no quick fix, but we do have a plan.

Our hope is to establish a training center called Sanctuary Village. The idea is to bring people from the countryside to live in a village much like their own village while they learn to grow their own food, learn a trade, study scripture, pray and practice ministry among the poor. In time we believe this ministry will be self-supporting, and need little assistance from us. It truly is an opportunity to invest in the future as we both give our brother a fish, and teach him how to fish.
I have begun to pray for partners in this task that will be willing to invest seven years of sowing to see a harvest that could last for many years to come. I am asking for help to raise an army of missionaries in Ethiopia who will be equipped for the days ahead.
I would love nothing more than to have invested the next seven years into hundreds of Ethiopians who are committed locally-supported disciplemakers. I believe this could happen.
Already we have witnessed ministers who no longer need our support and have directed their sponsorship to others. Over 50% of the churches we work with have begun to support their ministers. The support that has come from America has been a catalyst for change, and an encouragement to our poverty stricken brothers and sisters in Christ.

Four Need Support

There are times when the Lord gives us the need for more supporters through bringing new missionaries. There are also times when new supporters are needed because some of those who have supported in the past discontinue their support. At this time we have both new missionaries and a couple who formerly had supporters.
Yerga Berta has been with IOI for almost seven years. He has a wife and two sons. He works in Addis Abeba doing evangelism and church planting. Kebebush Gudeta has been with IOI for almost four years and is a dear sister who is praying that God would give her a good husband. She works in Addis and in the countryside as an evangelist and has a wonderful prayer ministry. This brother and sister have been faithful ministers in Christ and are a true joy.
The other two who need support are new to IOI and working in regions that we have been praying that God would expand this work to.
The first is a Baptist congregation in the northern city of Mekele where the ORE childcare program is located. The pastor of this church is doing full time ministry but the congregation is not able to fully support him on their own.
The other church we would like to partner with is being planted in Debre Tisge which is about 40 kilometers northwest of Addis. This church was formerly opposed by many in the area. New laws in Ethiopia require local governments to give fair treatment to all religions. City officials were seeking to display their progressive thinking and gave the new congregation a plot of land approximately six acres in size which is a large lot in Ethiopia. The church planters involved have recently rented the house of a witchdoctor to use for a temporary meeting place. The church now needs support to be able to build on the land and have a full-time pastor.
You can support one of these missionary families for only $60.00 USD per month. If you are interested in supporting any of these ministries, please contact the IOI office. Please pray that God will provide supporters where there are needs for our brothers and sisters in Ethiopia.

Childcare Sponsorship

IOI has partnered with two childcare programs in Ethiopia: Operation Rescue in Mekele and the Repi Childcare Project in Addis. These two programs seek to take the poorest children and those who have lost their parents to a place where they and their families are able to have their basic needs provided for. The children in the programs are placed in school and receive weekly Bible lessons. Our hope is to care for the physical needs of the poor and orphaned as well as point them to Christ who alone can care for their spiritual needs.
Tom Spencer and Arlene Norton were at the recent IOI board meeting where they gave updates on the work in Ethiopia. Tom is the founder of Jabez Children’s Ministry, which is now the umbrella organization for the Repi Childcare project. Arlene is the new volunteer coordinator for IOI Child Sponsorship.
Recently we have learned that Habatamu, a child supported at Repi, and his whole family have received faith in Christ. They thank the Lord for this program where they heard the gospel and witnessed God’s love in action.
Thanks to the efforts of Arlene, forty new sponsors have recently joined with IOI to provide for children like Habatamu.
If you are interested in supporting a child at $20 per month, or if you would like more information, contact Arlene at (662)610-4056 or call the IOI office.

Church Aids In Lema’s Need

In the July newsletter the missionary profile was on a dear brother, Lema Kasaye who has been going through a very difficult time recently with the death of his wife and health problems of his own. After telling the story of Lema, we received a response from a Sunday School class in Jackson, TN asking how they could aid Lema in his time of need. The class took up an offering of $450 on the Sunday morning that Patrick left for Ethiopia and delivered the money to him just before his departure. We were not sure of all the needs that Lema had, but Patrick visited with him and, unbeknownst to Lema, left the money with Negash to be exchanged for birr (Ethiopian currency) . After giving Lema the gift, Negash learned that, at the death of his wife, Lema incurred a 2000 birr debt which weighed heavily on him. With this gift Lema was able to pay the debt off the next day and still have 2176 birr to help his family through this hard time. This was such a blessing to our brother and for us to watch unfold. Praise the Lord for His caring for His children even in the needs that no one but they and God know about. Please pray for Lema that he can have the peace of Christ in this time. He has struggled with worry about what would happen to his sons should he die. Patrick has offered assurance to him that they will be cared for, but still remember him when you come before our Lord.

An Update from Ben

I got an email from Ben tonight and it seems that he and Caleb are doing well.

Ben reported that Negash's home is full of people. They are preparing for Aster's (Negash's daughter) wedding to Ayele (the director of the Compassion International Repi Project). Seems that Caleb and Ben passed on the chunks of raw oxen that were passed around at the feast.

Even though Ben's main purpose of going to Ethiopia is his upcoming marriage to Pepo (Negash's other daughter) he has been involved in some ministry along with Caleb.

"Earlier tonight Negash and Caleb and I went to visit a little boy who probably has HIV" he said. "He was alone at his house tonight because his foster mother was a work tonight. We prayed for him and gave him some of the puzzles that were sent in the IOI tub that Caleb brought. After we prayed for him he said that his heart was filled with joy. The whole experience really made me think about God's work in the world and what is really important to the Lord. I was very thankful for the opportunity to be there and be a small part of that ministry."

Continue to pray for Ben and Caleb as their summer progresses. Pray for good health and safety. Pray that God will do many good works through them both. Pray for Ben and Pepo as they prepare to begin life together as husband and wife (and one of them has to deal with the culture shock of their new home).

Proposed Support Increase

The Board of Directors recently decided to increase the support given to missionaries in Ethiopia from $50 US to $60 per month. This is the first increase since the founding of IOI over eight years ago.
The increase is necessary due to inflation and a desire on our part to be a greater blessing to our brothers and sisters in Ethiopia. It is hoped that the increase will ease some financial pressure.
The price of teff, the staple of Ethiopian diet that is consumed at most every meal, has increased over 100% in the past eight years. This increase has had a trickle down effect on the cost of other goods. Housing costs have also risen dramatically.
Donors are being asked to consider an increase in giving from $50 to $60 per month. We are also seeking additional supporters who can help to make up the difference for those who are unable to increase their monthly giving. Donors will now have the option to provide “half-support” of $30 per month and share their missionary with another supporter.
This change is scheduled to be fully implemented by the end of the year. v

Sponsor Visits Child in Ethiopia

by Arlene Norton

A little over four years ago I decided to help support an orphan in Mekele, Ethiopia at an orphanage called Operation Rescue. The amount was only $15 dollars a month.

Patrick told me that he would personally pick me a girl to sponsor while he was there on a visit. I really didn’t know much more than a name, age and small photo at the time.

Her name was Emebet and she was twelve and had never been to school. We exchanged letters and I sent her packages of candy, clothes and books. I was amazed at how well she was doing in school and hoped to see her one day. In Ethiopia you have to pay to go to a government school. The cost is out of reach for most. The average Ethiopian makes only a dollar a day. With this in mind you can see how the cycle of poverty keeps repeating. If you’re an orphan, because of AIDS, war, sickness, death, or abandonment - then you have to survive by living in the streets and begging or worse.

Emebet’s father left when Emebet’s mother died of tuberculosis. Her grandmother took her and her sister in when they were just small children. The grandmother could not afford to send them to school and she prayed and cried about it often.

The grandmother cannot physically work, but she does rent out two small rooms about the size of a walk-in closet. With her windfall of $40 a month she has to feed, clothe, and take care of two granddaughters and an aging mother.

I decided to go to ORE in January of this year and meet Emebet. It took a precise series of miracles to get me there. My husband would have to get 10 days off in a row, and they had to be a certain 10 days. I would have get out of the U.S. before my flight was cancelled by a storm. I had an impossible 5-minute connection in Detroit. Patrick and I would have to get the last two tickets to Mekele on the major Ethiopian holiday weekend. We would also have to secure the last two rooms in the last hotel in town. I would not suggest to travel like this unless God is your “Plan A” and “Plan B.” Everything went eerily smoothly.

Meeting Emebet and her extended family was the highlight of my trip. She and her sister live in a two-room stucco tin-roof hut. They have no running water, sporadic electricity, and no kitchen. The two living rooms convert into bedrooms at night where Emebet, her sister, her grandmother and great-grandmother sleep.

I have never felt so welcomed as I did that day. I met her uncles, an aunt and nephews and friends. We had coffee, popcorn and a lot to talk about. The great-grandmother told me she had prayed that she would live long enough to see me. She was frail and almost blind, she walked with a cane over many boulders to meet me at the front gate because she wanted to be the first to see me. I don’t think that the Queen of England could compete with that.

I didn’t realize that going to ORE had helped so many people. ORE helped Emebet’s older sister start a small roadside business with her aunt. ORE gives the children an education, and a hot meal everyday, in addition to a family to live with. All grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers or sisters who are willing to take in an orphan are given a part of the $15 a month and free business classes, job skills and financial advice.

Emebet went from being a 12-year-old uneducated street child to an educated young lady heading for pharmacy school this fall. She completed all her classes at ORE and took computer classes at the Nile college in Mekele.

Emebet hopes to be a pharmacist in three years. Pharmacy school will cost about $3,000 total for books and everything! I told her we could pay for it and her whole family cried. I would suggest that you get involved with ORE on a personal level. Do write them and encourage them.

Emebet is well on her way out of poverty and of course I looked around for a new orphan to sponsor while I was there. I have a new girl, Blean. She is six and completely charming. Her father died of AIDS and her mother is very sick and is expected to die. She is being raised by a grandmother. Blean gave me a small bead bracelet while I was there and I will wear it as a prayer for her. I hope each day that these children can grow into their full potential .

Praise God.

Building Up the Church

by Patrick Beard

Often in America we talk about “building” a church. More often than not our conversations involve brick and mortar, rather than the edification of individuals within the church. Our terminology reveals our error in that we call building a “church” rather than the congregation that has covenanted to follow Christ together.

As Christ ascended from the earth He promised to stay with us by sending His Holy Spirit. His Spirit now lives in the heart of those whom He gives faith in His gospel. He resides within both to comfort and empower all believers as we anticipate the return of Christ, make disciples and edify each other. Our brothers and sisters in Ethiopia are certainly no exception to this promise.
Each week in Ethiopia minister from eleven denominations gather to pray at the IOI prayer meeting. These meetings have led to many deep relationships. Often the diverse ministers gather around a common table to share meals and exchange their joys and sorrows. Each minister, and indeed each believer, has been specially gifted by God to fulfill a unique role in the Kingdom of God. Frequently the ministers will call on one another as they have become interdependent within the greater Body of Christ. This fellowship is just one way that God has used IOI to build His Church.

Our Bible conference this year focused on Following Christ. This following is done as individual parts within a greater body. It is our ambition as an organization to build up the Church as God gives us the resources and ability. Please consider joining with us in 2007 in the way that God directs. v

Ministry Among the Poor

Thanks to a generous gift from a Jackson church the Bible conference in Ethiopia held a special blessing for the ministers supported through IOI. In addition to each minister receiving gifts of special shirts and medicine the ministers also received a Christmas gift of 500 Birr (about $60 US). The missionaries also received the same amount to give away to neighbors or church members who are in desperate need.
The monetary gift was especially timely as food in Ethiopia has increased in cost almost 100% over the past two years. The inflation has been particularly hard on the poorest Ethiopians who were already strapped financially and often go days without eating.
“I have never seen God’s people begging for bread, but I have seen them go hungry,” Patrick said. At the last board meeting of IOI the Board was unanimous in their resolve to increase giving as much funding as possible to help alleviate the suffering of church members of associated churches, as well as using the Micah and Agemba Funds to minister mercy to the surrounding neighbors. “We want to reach people with the love of God by preaching the Gospel of grace and ministering God’s mercy through tangible benevolence. v

Ecki's Trip to Ethiopia

German Port Minister Ecki Breitenmoser visited Ethiopia this January. He met with the family of an Ethiopian seafarer, preached at the IOI Bible conference, visited churches in the countryside and met with many of the Ethiopian missionaries supported through IOI.

They came hurting. They left healed!

Kalkidan was all smiles as she strapped in for her flight home!








Gashawoy and Kalkidan safely arrived back in Addis Ababa at 6:30 p.m. on September 3rd. They were greeted by Kalkidan's teary-eyed mother, Emmebate, and many of their friends. Gashawoy's friend Tatek sent us an email to let us know they made it home and that there was a celebration upon their return.

The whole group spent the night at a friend's home in Addis Ababa and sang hymns of praise and thanksgiving. Tatek included the lyrics of one of the praise choruses: (Amharic) Becemayu sifra bekibir yalhew, egzabhere lenae liyu nehithat. (English) God who is in heaven, you are special to me.

After singing, they read Psalm 113:5-8. "Who is like the Lord our God, the One who sits enthroned on high, who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth? He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes, with the princes of their people." (NIV)

So, it is with both sadness and joy in our hearts that we make this final entry in our journal regarding the miracle of Kalkidan. Gashawoy and Kalkidan touched our hearts in a way that will never leave us, so the sadness is not one of gloom or despair, but an emptiness that occurs when a loved one goes away.

The overwhelming joy is in knowing that God has performed a miracle and we were able to be a small part of it. It took many people many hours of hard work, both in the US and Ethiopia, to arrange for passports, visas, transportation, housing, medical care, the website, fundraising, and so many other things that it is difficult to remember them all. Yet none of this would have been possible without God, the sustainer of life itself. For those of us who were closest to this whole project, we can state with certainty that we would have failed without the intervention of our Lord and His response to our prayers. Throughout this endeavor we have received letters and emails from people all over the country that have prayed for Kalkidan, and those intercessory prayers were answered in a mighty way.

It is somewhat ironic that we even use the term "miracle". We sometimes look at things through the prism of our own abilities and we stand dumbstruck when something we pray for actually happens. We worry and toil over the little details and wonder what we can do to make things happen, and we forget that the sovereign God is in control of his creation. All it really takes is faith that the One who spoke the universe into existence can heal a sick little girl. So we praise God for his abundant mercies and his everlasting love.

What about Gashawoy's faith. He could have given up. He could have believed the doctors and the naysayers from his own country that told him to prepare for his daughter's death. He could have seen the obstacles to going to America as insurmountable and given up. He could have cursed God for the tragedy of losing his only child. But none of those things happened. By faith, Gashawoy left his family and traveled thousands of miles to bring his daughter, Kalkidan, to the USA. He had to come alone, because his wife could not accompany him on the trip. He faced and overcame a language barrier and a significant cultural barrier, because he believed God would answer his prayers regarding Kalkidan - and he was right! So, is it really over? No, it's just the beginning.

Now that the surgery was successful and Gashawoy and Kalkidan are home again, let us not forget to remember this family in prayer. Time and distance have a way of pushing today into the forgotten past and the things that seem important now can be buried in our daily routine. We believe that God is not through with Gashawoy and Kalkidan and we sense His purpose will have a far reaching impact on the people of Ethiopia. What better testimony of the power of God than a living, breathing "miracle" child. Our responsibility is to continue to pray that God will lead and direct Gashawoy, his family, and his friends as they continue to faithfully serve Him.

With much gratitude and appreciation we want to thank everyone who contributed their time, prayers, and financial support to save the life of Kalkidan Gashawoy Asfaw, and we close out this chapter with the words of the Apostle Paul, "May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all (2 Corinthians 13:14 - NIV).

Grace Wilson

Gashawoy and Kalkidan to Depart for Ethiopia

Now, it's time to say Good-bye.

Gashawoy and KalKidan are READY TO RETURN TO ETHIOPIA ON THIS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2.

Their leaving is a reminder of all the awesome things that God has done; but, they are such loving people...their leaving is Bittersweet.I KNOW that God has great things for them to accomplish in Ethiopia. Ethiopia needs wise,future thinking, Godly people to encourage and teach the people so the country can prosper.

Who....Gashawoy and KalKidan
What...SUCCESS OF THE OPERATION & NOW, BACK TO ETHIOPIA....Open House celebration!
Where...West Covington Baptist Church at 1003 Highway Ave., Covington, Ky. 41011
http://www.westcovingtonkybaptist.com/
When...Friday, Sept 1, 2006 from 5:00-7:00
Why....Stop in for 1 minute or 2 hours, get some cake, finger foods & snacks, and say Good-Bye and just show your love and support!

DO NOT BRING GIFTS BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANT TO WORRY ABOUT HOW TO SHIP "STUFF" BACK! JUSTSTOP IN-THAT IS YOUR GIFT.PRAY FOR THESE FLIGHTS...Delta Airlines Flight 5225Departs Cincinnati (CVG) on Saturday Sept 2 @ 12:10 p.m. (12:10)Arrives Washington, D.C. (IAD) on 9/2 @ 1:38 p.m. (13:38)Ethiopian Airlines Flight 501Departs Washington, D.C. (IAD) on Saturday Sept 2 @ 7:30 p.m. (19:30)Arrives Addis Ababa (ADD) on 9/3 @ 6:06 p.m. (18:05)